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u.or os'V-at'mnT Ni.3.JA?i!i SECTION GSN.HE'. AND DOCUaEHTS DIV. EUiJiti,OREa. C3iIP. in- - ' " I 4S. - WATER RAVAGES AREA On the right side of this street stand homes. On the left, all that is left is the pads where the homes were before the Baldwin Hills Reservoir Dam (background) burst, tossing houses and automobiles like toys onto the crest of the flood. The arrow points to the huge crack in the dam. At least 50 homes were de stroyed by the gallons of water that roared through the broken fissure of the dam. Residents of the area returned today to sort through the debris. UPI Telephoto In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Moscow this morning: The Soviet parliament re ceived for formal approval to day an unprecedented $212.3 BILLION peacetime budget for the next two vcars that empha sized BREAD AND BUTTER instead of guns. 'Premier Khrushchev looked on approvingly in the Grand Kremlin Palace as Defense Min ister Vasily Garbuzov read out the figures, lopping off $666 mil lion from DEFENSE spending for the next year. At the same time, $27.1 bil lion was allocated to the na tion's failing agriculture, over the next two years and the green light was given to a chemistry industry build - up which will supply the farms with fertilizer and also satisfy GROWING DEMANDS FOR MORE CONSUMER GOODS. This is the interesting part of the story: President Kroosh and his ad visers appear to be coming to the conclusion that it just might be SAFER FOR THEM to spend less for guns (and atom bombs t w ith which to conquer the world for communism and more for butter (and also for STEAKS and better houses and better clothing and more auto mobiles) and the other things that go to make up the GOOD LIFE that the people of the Western world seem to be hav ing in much greater abundance than the people of the U.S.S.R. That, if true, could be highly significant. Fome interesting figures: The present estimated popula tion of the United States is about 188.000.000. The present estimated popula tion of the U.S.S.R. is about 220.000.000. The anticipated federal budg et of the U.S. for the next fis cal year is in the neighborhood of $100 billion. The anticipated budget of the U.S. S R. for the next year, ac cording to this morning s dis patches from Moscow, will be about $106 billion. Which is to ay: Thp per capita federal tax in th U.S. for the next fiscal year w ill he about $ The per capita tax in the U S S R, for the next fiscal year will be about HS2. Tlie.e figures, of course, don t mean much. The value of an American dol lar depends entirely on how much o( the necessities and the good thine of 1 He a dollar will buy. The value of a Russian ruble 'which in foreian exchanee is worth about $111' depends en tirely on how much of the eood things of li:e a rutiie will buy. In this country, we're quite cer- ( Continued en Page 4) r ,,.!.. r.- .... . i i i- 1 i 'J Reds Announce Record Bread, Butter Budget (MOSCOW (UPIi Eussia to day announced a record $212.3 billion peacetime budget for the next two years that emphasized bread and butter instead of guns. The budget presented to the Soviet Parliament cut mili tary spending by 4.4 per cent from tile previous budget. Mili tary expenditures represented about 14.6 per cent of the total budget compared to 16.1 per cent during the current year. The total budget was 193 bil lion rubles. At the artificial rate of exchange, the ruble is fig ured at approximately $1.10. Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev looked on approvingly in the Grand Kremlin Palace as Fi nance Minister Vasily Garbuzov read out the figures, lopping off $666 million from defense spend ing for the next year. At the same time, $27.1 bil lion was allocated to the na tion's failing agriculture over the next two years and the green light was given to a chemical industry buildup w hich w ill supply the farms with ferti lizer and also satisfy growing demands for more consumer goods. Khrushchev and his advisers had taken a cautious Jook into the future and apparently de cided that some funds could be safely diverted from defense and massive sums poured into agriculture and die chemical in dustry to prevent a recurrence U.S. Shifts Cuba Ruling WASHINGTON 'UPI' - The United States today amended its controls on free world ship ping to Cuba to provide in creased incentive for shipown ers to remove vessels from trade with the Fidel Castro re gime. State Department officials ex pressed hope the new regula tions will result in "a substan tial additional reduction" in free world shipping to Cuba over the next year or 13 months. They said the new rules were designed to make it easier for shipowners to withdraw from Cuban trade. The old U.S. regulations went into effect last Feb. . They provided that any vessel which had traded with Cuba since Jan. I. I3. would be placed on a blacklist and would be ineligi ble to load U S. government-financed cargoes in U S. ports. Under the old procedure the only way an ouner could get a veafcl off the blacklist was to plcdce that all of his fleet would be removed from Cuban trade. of this year's disastrous harv ests. U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Koh ler and other envoys of both East ond West watched the speaker read out to 1444 depu ties at a joint session of the Supreme Soviet provisions of the new budget. Pyotr Lomako, chairman of the state planning committee, presented a two-year economic plan to bring Soviet production by 1965 to the United States level of five years ago. Tin Miners Okay Pact LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI '-Rebellious tin miners at Catavi to day voted approval of an agree ment reached with the govern ment by their leaders lor Mie immediate release of 21 hos tages, including four Ameri cans, held since Dec. 6. The vole came after hours of bitter wrangling at the rally, held in (lie mine, where mine leader Vice President Juan Lechin was alternately attacked and defended for his handling of the situation. The embattled miners had previously demanded the re lease of three arrested Commu nist labor leaders held in La Paz in exchange for freedom for the hostages. Lechin arrived in Catavi late Sunday to get the miners to ratify the agreement announced during the weekend in La Paz. The only concession Lechin was known to have won was a gov--ernment agreement to withdraw troops deployed in the mining area. Aid Funds Cut Backed WASHINGTON 'UPI' House leaders all but gave up hope to day in tiie battle to add new funds to the trimmed-down $2 8 billion foreign aid bill. Speaker John W. McCormaik told newsmen that the possibil ity of persuading House mem bers to increase die bill's total was being "surveyed." But his cautious altitude appeared to reflect the outcome of a prelim inary head count, which was said to have shown that admin istration leaders could not mus ter enough votes to boost the aid program. In fact it appeared that they would he lucky to block a drive to pare d'wn the bill even further. Thankful Residents Return To Ravaged LOS ANGELES (UPP-Bald-win Hills area residents re turned to their flood ravaged homes today thankful only three persons were killed when an earth reservoir dam burst and caused $10 million damage. A warning of nearly four hours was credited with pre venting it "from becoming one of the big disasters of all time." With these words, city atty. Roger Arnebergh seemed to sum up the feelings of city of ficials that most residents of Wenllior Klamath Palls. Tultlaha and Lake view: Moilly clsuriy tftrouah Tuctday with a chanct el inow or thowers lata Tuesday. Lew tonight U-M. High Tues day aoS. High yesterday 4? Low this morning 34 High year age 44 Low year agr, 40 Precip. past 34 hours Since Jan. 1 9. ft Same period last year u.ll as. Big College Aid Bill Signed By President WASHINGTON (liPI Pres ident Johnson today signed into law the $1.2 billion college aid bill and said it is proof the na tion plans to give its youth "all the education they deserve." The President, who signed the legislation at a ceremony in the White House Cabinet Room, termed it "the most significant education bill passed by the Congress in the history of the republic." The new program provides for grants and loans to help build college classrooms libraries and laboratories. But Johnson warned that the job is far from finished. He urged Congress to take prompt action on the rest of the admin istration's education proposals, particularly aid to primary and secondary schools, and govern ment support of adult educa tion programs. In a tribute to President Ken nedy, who -waged a long fight "there was no topic closer to Arctic Air Hits Plains Of Midwest By United Press International An Arctic air mass sent tem peratures falling far below zero across the plains and Midwest today with subfreezing temper atures reported as far south as the central Gulf states. The mercury plunged to 36 degrees below zero at Bemidji, Minn., and 30 below at Interna tional Falls, Minn. Locally heavy snow squalls blew off the Great Lakes east ward to the Appalachians. Mus kegon, Mich., reported six inch es of frc. snow in six hours today, making a total of 15 inches on the ground. Rain and snow fell along the northwest coast. A half inch of rain fell at Astoria, Ore., in six hours and another inch of snow put nine inches on the ground at Spokane, Wash. Mostly fair skies prevailed across the nation with some olotidiness in the upper Ohio Valley, south central states and the Gulf Coast. Precipitation has been gener ally light in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. Traverse City. Mich., however, reported an additional six inches of snow. Maine. New Hampshire, Ver mont and Rltode Island were caught under a freeze-up of temperatures zero and slightly below. At Buffalo, N.Y., traffic bogged down in the blowing, drilling snow which clogced highways and reduced visibility to the danger point. Southern Erie and northern Cattaraugus counties, N.Y., suf fered its worst w intery blasts of the season. Santa Readies Visit To KF Santa Claus and his icindeer come to hjamath Falls Wednes day. The appearance of Santa and his reindeer is sponsored by the Klamath Merchants Associ ation. Children will be allowed lo pet the reindeer and Santa will talk to children no Main Street between Filth and Sivth streets from 4 to 9 pm Wednesday. the heavily populated area es caped death Saturday when a wall of water destroyed or dam aged nearly 1,000 homes. However, there was a possi bility the death toll might rise higher as residents and workers dug through three and four feet of mud. A path of water, almost 40 feet wide, ripped through an area a mile and a half square with homes up to the $50,000 class. Police threw up a cordon around the area to prevent Unit Price Ten Centfr 14 Pages Trop his heart." He said the bill was a monument not only to Ken nedy, but "to every person who participated in passing it." Tile President used about 50 pens to sign the bill, passing them out afterward to con gressmen and educators attend ing the ceremony. The first two went to Sen. Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore., and Rep. Edith Green, D-Ore., the managers of the bill. The three-year program is de signed to meet an expected "ti dal wave" of college students in the 19H0-70 decade. A major part of the late President Ken nedy's education request, the bill would authorize the first broad assistance program for the nation's colleges since the land grant act of a century ago. If used to the limit, the $835 million in direct federal grants and $360 million in low-interest loans could generate up to $3 billion in new construction on the campuses of 2,100 pub lic and private colleges, univer sities and technical institutes. Colleges will have to match federal grants two to one, and supply at least one-quarter of total project costs when seeking the 50-year loans. Tile program will be open to privately endowed and church connected institutions as well as publicly owned and financed schools. No funds will be spent on chapels or divinity schools, nor on sports arenas or other buildings to which admission would be charged. There also are limitations on use of the $fi!X million ear marked for grants to help build undergraduate academic facili ties. Classroom buildings under that part of the program will have to be designed for instruc tion in the sciences, mathemat ics, engineering and modern for eign languages. All Details Completed On Boardman Leasing SALEM l UPI I -With Ore gon's lease of the planned Boardman Space Age Industrial Park apparently an accomplish ed fact, the Boeing Company Board of Directors was expected to meet today and appropriate funds (or initial development of the project. H. C. Saalfeld. director of the state's Veterans' Affairs Depart ment which now owns the lull,-000-acre tract in northeastern Oregon, said "we have per formed all the state's obliga tions." Planning and Development Di rector Samuel H. Mallicoat. who has mothered the crisis-ridden project for three years, said "the state has met its require ments. It's now up to Boeing. We expect an appropriation to be authorized by the company's directors at their meeting to day." Loren Hicks, legal advisor lo Gov. Mark Hatfield, said "the stale has now completed its part, and the lease and attach ments and title policy have gone to Boeing " Mallicoat and Saalfeld said Boeing attorney Giant Anderson had g i v e n his unqualified en dorsement of the state's title lo the land the final act needed to make the lease operative. Hicks commented "I think the big hurdle is now passed and we have perfected title." Mallicoat said Anderson took the lease, bile policy and other ing and only residents with passes were allowed to pass. Hundreds of policemen patrolled the muddy, debris-filled area. Mayor Samuel Yorty Sunday appointed the heads of three leading universities in the area to nominate members for a blue ribbon fact finding board of inquiry. The appointments were promptly accepted by Dr. Nor man Topping, president of the University of Southern Califor nia; Dr. Franklin Murphy, president of UCL. and Dr. 1-ce KLAMATH FALLS. ORKGOX, To By JOSEPH W. GRIGG PARIS (UPI) President Johnson pledged firmly today to keep the equivalent of six U.S. Army divisions in Europe "so long as they are needed." "Under present circumstances there is no doubt they will continue to be needed," Johnson said in a message to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization council meeting here. Johnson also pledged the "steadfast resolve" of the United States to continue defending the free nations of Europe. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk read Johnson's message to the opening session, of the three-day NATO meeting. Immediately afterward, Rusk drove to the Elysee Palace for a 45-minute courtesy call on President Charles do Gaulle of France. Rusk gave the French leader a message from Johnson ex pressing appreciation for De Gaulle's recent trip to Washing ton for the funeral of President Kennedy. However, nothing was said about a possible new visit by He Gaulle to Washing ton lor talks with Johnson. But today s - meeting, ar ranged at Husk s request, ap peared designed to infuse warmth into the long frigid of ficial relations between the United Slates and France. In its opening session the NATO council also heard Brit ish Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler express belief that the West today enjoys an over-all superiority of force over Hie Russians. But he warned that the Russians will make "every effort" to close this gap. Butler said the Soviets did not favor major concessions to the West. Nor, he said, did they want any big sliowdow-ns with the West. He urged that the West should maintain contacts with Russians but said lie ttad no illusions about early agree ments or early solutionc to East-West problems with Mos cow. Butler said the main Uireat from Communist China is not documents to Seattle, where they were to be turned over to William Allen, Boeing president. Saalfeld said final review of the documents by his staff, planning and development workers, and Anderson was completed at 12:45 a.m. Satur day. Today was the deadline for perfecting the title. Saalfeld said Boeing has 10 days from receipt of the docu ments for review, and if any last-minute flaw Is discovered, the state has 90 days in which to correct it. Saalfeld added: "It looks good I'm pretty confident about the whole project now." Shooting Hours OREGON Dpremoer 17 Open Close 6:55 a.m. 4:U p.m. CALIFORNIA DfTember 17 Open Close S:7 a.m. 4:U p.m. DuBridge, president of the Cal ifornia Institute of Technology. The death toll could have been staggering had the dam broken at night. "Hundreds of the 16.500 resi dents would have been killed," said a policeman who helped clear the area. "Had it taken us another 15 minutes we prob ably all would have been lost." Officer T. B. Mason said he and other policemen were sent to the scene immediately after a crack, appeared in the north wall of the 500-foot long, 135- MONDAY, DECEMBER IB, 1W3 Sap Meimi one of military aggression but of encouragement to action against the Chinese. He said (lie Hcd Chinese also appear determined to avoid a clash. President Johnson's message, in pledging America's firm re solve to continue U.S. commit ments to live defense of Europe, said: "This constancy reflects not mer.ely the community of ideals and culture which binds us to Europe. It reflects also my country's awareness that its security can be assured, its interest and values can be fur thered, only by a close partner ship with Europe in common tasks. Johnson said the first of those tasks is creation of a balanced defense posture for (NATO, in eluding both nuclear and con ventional forces which would en. able the alliance to deal with aggression "with the force ap propriate to the threat. High Court Nullifies Conviction WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Supreme Court today reversed the contempt convictions of two Southern segregationists who had been joined in their apeal by the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Justice Department. Tile court sklcsteppcd a broader issue presented by the case: Whether a court order in volving free speech and assem bly can be tested by disobedi ence or wlieUier it must be ap pealed through legal channels. The juslices, in their brief unsigned opinion, merely cited a lack of evidence as the rea son for the reversal. The two men involved were Edward R. Fields, party infor mation director of the National States Rights party, and Rob ert Lyons, youth organizer for the group. They were convicted of contempt after being forbid den to distribute handbills and hold an anti-integration meeting in Kairfield, Ala. In another action, the court refused a liearing to a group of Negroes who challenged Mis sissippi's segregation statutes. The Negroes, headed by the Rev. L. A. Clark of Jackson, had been turned down in lower federal courts on grounds Ihey could not act for all members of Uieir race a practice known legally as "class action." live court also: Agreed to decide a bound ary dispute between Louisiana and Mississippi involving oil rich land under die Mississippi River. Iiiisiana authorities were authorized to file the suit with the high tribunal and Mis sissippi was given 90 days (o file an answe. Threw out two cases deal ing with obscenity tests in Los Angeles involving the Henry Miller book. 'Tropic of Can cer." It reiected an aptwal by City Attorney Roger Arnebergh who had been challenged by a bookseller on grounds the novel did not fall in the clasttfication of "hard core pornography." foot high dam. He said many residents didn't even know the dam existed. Max K. Socha, chief engineer of water works, said the dam designed by the late R. R. Proctor, was one of the most advanced structures of its type. Proctor, who died a year ago, was a worldwide authority on earth-empacted fills, and the Baldwin Hills dam had served as a model in both hemis pheres, Socha said. Although an oflicial investiga tion was being held, observers Telephone IV 4 8111 No. 7K55 Talks Prove Useless On Berlin Wall Truce BERLIN (UPD-East Ger man Communist lcailer Walter Ulbricht said in a telegram re leased today that negotiations on Christmas passes for West Berliners to visit their rela tives behind the wall in East Berlin have been fruitless. Ulbricht said in the wire to the West German Socialist par ly that progress has been "blocked" by the refusal of the West Berlin city government to sign an agreement on such vis its. The East German Communist chief claimed the West Berlin city government has rejected on political grounds the East German plan to issue passes so that West Berliners mav visit with their East Berlin relatives during the Christmas season. Ulbricht appealed to West German Socialist leaders to in struct the Socialist-run West Berlin city government to ac cept the Last German plan Negotiations on the Christmas passes began Dec. 5 but have bogged down over what West Berlin officials consider to be a back-door East German de mand for recognition of their regime. Ulbricht's telegram was sent Saturday and released by t h e East German News service ADN today. It dimmed further the hopes of West Berliners that they would get tlie Christmas passes. The official East German Communist parly newspaper Neues Deutschland accused the West Berlin city government of refusing to give guarantees JATO HELPER TOY TOWN SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS ' ; III HE WILL RECEIVE GIFTS Franklin Gray has no known relatives. He has been at the Klamath Nursing Home for more than a year. For many years ho was employed at ranch work in Klamath County and one lived at Bonanza. He was born in Warm Springs, Wyo., Nov. 14, 1874. H it one of the 36 men at the home who will be remembered through the generosity of the folks in the Klamath country, during the annual Share Your Christmas Party Dee. 20, sponsored by the Herald and News. Region speculated a series of holes in the concrete and asphalt lining, revealed after the 300 million gallons of w ater emptied, could have been the cause of the col lapse. Subsidence caused by oil be ing removed by the many pumps that dot the area near by was another possibility, as was weakening caused by movement of the earth and cracking and stretching of the earth in the area. Whatever the cause, there were hundreds of homeless. Weather LONG-HANOI FORECAST C hinging wtthtr ptlttrni Indicate mild limptralurt with prtclpitlinn In Hit form of nw or khowtrt on Wed ntsday and Frtdty. that It would live up to pass agreement. The city government consid ered the guarantees demanded by the Communists a bid for recognition of the East German government. The Communists made the charge as East German and West Berlin negotiators sched uled another meeting today in an effort to break the deadlock on the passes. Child Gets Last Look BOWLING GREEN, S.C. (UPI) - Two-year-old Vickl Wray, partially blinded by can cer, joined her eight brothers and sisters today for a last look at the family Cliristmos tree. Vicki will enter Duke Univer sity Medical Center at Durham, N.C., Tuesday where doctors will remove her right eye. Her left eye had been removed last July in an attempt to save (he child's life. "There really won't be any Christmas in this house," said her father, Robert Wray, a $50-a-week mill hand who works in nearby Clover. "I've told the big children not to expect any thing. I don't know how to tell the little ones." Wray, 39, said Vicki's Christ mas wish was a tree, decorat ed Willi colored bulbs and shin ing ornaments. Lacking enough money to purchase one, he went to some nearby woods and cut down a tree. "We had some ornaments left over from last year and used those," he said. "But there will be no presents." Doctors discovered a malig nant tumor in Vicki's eyes last March and now think another of Wray's children, a month-old infant, may be similarly afflict ed. Wray and his wife will bring the infant, Edward, to Durham for observation. "Hope is all we've got left," said the child's mother. t h d i' ':l
